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By William Henry Harrison
The danger to all well-established free governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in its existence or from the influence of designing men diverting their attention from the quarter whence it approaches to a source from which it can never come.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Harrison's inaugural address on March 4, 1841. He warns that free peoples lose their liberty when they refuse to see the danger or are talked into looking the other way.